Instructions for Oral and Poster Presentations

Oral Presentations

Presentations must be uploaded onto the central server at least two hours prior to the beginning of your session. Speakers will not be allowed to connect personal computers to the projector, and session chairs will not be able to load presentations during oral sessions.

At the conference, the "Presentation Upload Center" located in the Prairie Center Internet Cafe will be available for checking the content of your presentation and uploading it to the central server. Presentations may be uploaded from CD, DVD, or USB flash drive. Only Power Point presentations (.ppt) and Adobe Acrobat files (.pdf) will be accepted, as the available software includes Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat Reader.

A laptop computer, projector, laser pointer, slide advancer, and lapel microphone will be available in each oral session room. Your uploaded presentation will be available from the central server in each session room.

For ICOPS/SOFE Joint Plenary Speakers: Presenters should plan for 50 minutes (+10 minutes of question time) for the Opening Plenary (Monday), and for 40 minutes (+ 5 minutes of question time) for the Joint Plenaries (Tuesday).

Poster Presentations

The poster sessions will be located in CC11 AB and CC12 A-D. Posters must fit on a 4’ (four feet high) x 8’ (eight feet wide) poster board. Please refer to the At-A-Glance schedules for ICOPS and SOFE to determine poster session locations and times. The poster presenter is expected to remain at the poster site during the entire time allotted to the poster session. Each poster has been assigned a number, and must be mounted on the appropriately numbered board. (You can check the number by referring to the printed or on-line program.)

SOFE posters will be in the morning sessions (10 AM to Noon) and must be mounted by 9 AM on the day of the poster session, and taken down immediately following the session.

ICOPS posters will be presented in the afternoon sessions (1 PM to 3 PM) and must be mounted by 12:30 PM on the day of the poster session, and taken down by 3:30 PM the same day.